Volume 202 Issue 5

Combating antimicrobial resistance through global strategies and diagnostic advances

David F M Looke FRACP, FRCPA, MMedSci(ClinEpidemiol) · Thomas Gottlieb MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA · Cheryl A Jones MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP

World Kidney Day highlights the global inequalities in treating renal disease

David C Harris MD, BS, FRACP

The MJA is introducing changes to its design to make it more reader-friendly and interesting

Stephen Leeder

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The many benefits for rural doctors and patients suggest it is time for telehealth to be part of routine clinical practice

Sabe Sabesan BM BS, FRACP · Jenny Kelly BN, MPH, PhD

New research on how enterococci become drug-resistant suggests that hospital practice should evolve in line with our new insights

Surendra Karki MSc, MScIH, PhD · Karin Leder FRACP, PhD, MPH · Allen C Cheng FRACP, MPH, PhD

Screening with cultures from rectal swabs before prostate biopsy is not indicated

George Mirmilstein MB BS(Hons) · John Ferguson DTM

Gastroduodenal tuberculosis is rare and is often misdiagnosed as peptic ulcer disease

Rekha Pai Mangalore MB BS · Vivian Liang MB BS · Kalyani Tharmarajah MB BS, BMedSci

Evidence of value in screening for TB, strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasis in this population

Greta A Gurry · Claire Dendle MB BS, FRACP, GCHPE · Ian J Woolley FRACP, MD, DTMH

Although associated with lifelong risk, overwhelming post-splenectomy infection is preventable

Ravindra Dotel MB BS · Iain B Gosbell FRACP, FRCPA, FASM · Ann Hofmeyr MB ChB, FRACP, FRCPA

We have a duty to consider the health impacts of climate change

Colin D Butler BMed, MSc(Epidemiol), PhD · Peter W Tait MB BS, FRACGP, MClimChng

A multifaceted national response is required

Patrick Harris MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA · David Paterson PhD, FRCPA, FRACP · Benjamin Rogers MB BS, FRACP

A drastic reduction in CLABSIs in an ICU

Damoon Entesari-Tatafi MB BS · Neil Orford MB BS, FCICM, PGDipEcho · Michael J Bailey PhD, MSc, BSc · Martina N I Chonghaile FCICM, FCARSCI, MB BCh · Jill Lamb-Jenkins RN, Grad Dip Ed, MN · Eugene Athan MB BS, FRACP, MPH

A simple test involving swabbing upper and lower gum lines may help tackle Australia’s HIV epidemic

Derek Chan MPH, FAChSHM, PhD · Michael Stewart BIntS, MIPH · Maggie Smith RN, CertSexualReproductiveHealth · Tony Price BN, MNurs(Ed) · Jo Lusk MB ChB, FAChSHM, MPH · Catriona Ooi MB BS, BSc(Med), FAChSHM · Phillip Read MRCP, MPH, FAChSHM · Robert Finlayson MB BS, FAChSHM

Known HIV status and testing rates have increased in a high-risk population with tuberculosis

Jeffrey J Post MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP · Hazel Goldberg MB BS, FRACP · Gregory Kaufman FRACP · Marshall Plit MB BCh, PhD, FRACP · Kelly-Anne Ressler BSc, MPH · Mark J Ferson MD, FAFPHM, FRACP

Push for starting ART early

Limin Mao PhD · Philippe C G Adam PhD · Susan Kippax BA(Hons), PhD · Levinia Crooks BA(Hons), DipEd, MBA · Jeffrey J Post MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP · Michael R Kidd AM, MD, FRACGP · Sean Slavin PhD · Edwina J Wright MB BS, PhD, FRACP · John B F de Wit MSc, PhD

Antibiotics are still prescribed too frequently for many respiratory infections in young children

Ruby Biezen BSc, MAppSc · Allan J Pollack MB BS(Hons), FRACS, MPH(PP) · Christopher Harrison BPsych(Hons), MSocHealth · Bianca Brijnath PhD, BA(Hons) · Danilla Grando MAppSc, PhD, MASM · Helena C Britt BA, PhD · Danielle Mazza MD, MB BS, FRACGP

The risk to blood recipients, and the implications for blood donation in Australia

Veronica C Hoad MB BS, MPH, FAFPHM · David J Speers FRACP, FRCPA, FACTM · Anthony J Keller FRACP, FRCP, MRCPath · Gary K Dowse MSc, DTM · Clive R Seed BSc, PhD · Michael D A Lindsay BSc, PhD · Helen M Faddy BSc(Hons), PhD · Joanne Pink FRACP, FRCPA, GAICD

The evolving epidemiology of Australian multidrug-resistant organisms

Alex Y C Tai MB BS, BMedSc(Hons) · Rhonda L Stuart MB BS, FRACP, PhD · Hannah E Sidjabat MVSc, PGDipVSc, PhD · Christopher N Lemoh MB BS, PhD, FRACP · Benjamin A Rogers MB BS, FRACP · Maryza Graham MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA · David L Paterson MB BS, PhD, FRACP · Tony M Korman MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA

An organism that is part of normal oral flora is also a well known cause of metastatic abscesses

Benjamin Sim MB BS · D Ashley R Watson MB BS, MPH, FRACP

A serious rash highlights the importance of a patient’s sexual history

Joyce H Y Ma MB BS · Simon Smith MB ChB · Lynette A Gordon MB BS(Hons), FACD

He turns the boy’s hand back and over feeling each joint and bone

Erin Shiel MA, MPH

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Tiew-Hwa K Teng MPH, PhD · Joseph Hung FRACP, FACC, FCSANZ · Judith M Katzenellenbogen PhD · Dawn C Bessarab PhD, BSW(Hons) · Sandra C Thompson PhD, MPH, FAFPHM

The recent deaths of three psychiatry registrars and a trainee in Victoria and the continuing debate about mandatory reporting regulations accentuate a growing concern about the mental health of medical students, doctors-in-training and practising health care professionals

Cate Swannell